Entry № 9509 · Kurdish origin

Shems Shems — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

Gender

Girl

Origin

Kurdish

Meaning

"The sun"

Syllables

First recorded

Traditional

The meaning

A name that means "the sun".

Shems is a name of Kurdish origin, meaning the sun.

The sun — a Kurdish name.

In its original form

The name in its native script.

Shems

Transliteration: Shems
Pronunciation: / /
Root: —
Grammatical form: —

Popularity

Where Shems stands.

Shems does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Namesakes

Shemss before her.

Real people

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In fiction

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Names connected to Shems.

Numerology

The number behind Shems.

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Shems reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.